Canning Concentrated Grape Juice
Learn how you can easily can concentrated grape juice. It's delicious and fresh and tastes delicious. What's not to love!?
Equipment
Ingredients
- clean washed concord grapes (stems and twigs removed
- sugar (1/4 - 1/2 cup per pint/quart jar - optional)
- water
Instructions
- You will want to take your cleaned grapes and run them through your food mill or food press or another mixer with a strainer.
- Grind the grapes up, separating from the seeds and extracting the juice into a large bowl.
- If you are using the electric strainer, you will want to run at a slow speed. The seeds can bind up. You will also want to clean out the strainer after running through about 2 cups or it will stop working.
- Once the grapes have been run through, you can run the juice through the mesh strainer. Depending on how much pulp you want in your juice.
- Take the juice and heat it to 190 degrees F for 10 minutes. Remove from heat once this is done.
- You can allow to cool over night for the sediment to settle, or continue canning.
- Take the sterilized jars and add 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup sugar (if desired) to each jar.
- Add grape juice into each jar, leaving 1" head space (straining again if desired).
- Place a sterilized seal and hand tighten band on each jar.
- Place hot jars into hot water bath canner, with 1 inch of water over the jars.
- Process for 15 minutes for pints or quarts.
- Allow jars to sit 5 minutes before removing from water bath. If you don't the juice could boil out of the jar.
- Remove the jars from the heat and allow to cool for 12 hours (we put towels around them to have the cool slowly)
- Write the date and that it's concentrated grape juice on the label or seal. Check to make sure lids sealed.